This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to cite Noah Webster's work An American Dictionary of the English Language (1st edition, 1828, 2 volumes). It can be used to create links to the following online versions of the work:
|1=
or |entry=
– the name of the entry in the Dictionary. If this parameter is not specified, the name of the Wiktionary entry is used.|2=
or |page=
– mandatory in some cases: if citing the Internet Archive ("IA") version of the work, as it is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by IA to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/americandictiona01websrich/page/89/mode/1up
, specify |page=89
. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to Webstersdictionary1828.com.|3=
or |column=
, or |columns=
– if citing the IA version of the work, the column number(s) of the Dictionary on which the entry appears, from |column=1
to |column=3
. Use |columns=
if indicating a range of columns, and separate the first and last column numbers of the range with an en dash, like this: |columns=2–3
.|4=
, |text=
, or |passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|nodot=
– by default, the template adds a full stop (period) at the end of the citation. To suppress this punctuation, use |nodot=1
or |nodot=yes
.{{R:Webster 1828}}
(assuming it is used on the dictionary page); or{{R:Webster 1828|dictionary}}
{{R:Webster 1828|entry=hodmandod|page=901|column=2|passage=A shell-fish, otherwise called dodman.|nodot=1}}
; or{{R:Webster 1828|hodmandod|901|2|A shell-fish, otherwise called dodman.|nodot=yes}}